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From IT Support to Cloud Engineering: My Hands-On Roadmap

🫰 1. Where it started

I began my career in IT support — answering calls, resolving tickets, coordinating major incidents, and keeping users productive under pressure.

Over four years, I moved from first-line to Technical Incident Manager. It taught me how to analyze problems, manage chaos, and think in systems — but I wanted to learn how to build them.


⚒️ 2. Learning to build

In 2024, I decided to learn Java. I joined a coding school, started with the basics, and soon realized that writing code was just one part of the bigger picture.

That’s where my roadmap started.


🧩 3. Designing my roadmap

I wanted to build something real, document every decision, and see how a product evolves from monolith to cloud.

So I created a long-term plan.

I designed my learning roadmap with the support of 🤖 AI — not as a shortcut, but as a tool to think broader, plan smarter, and build faster.

In today’s tech world, ignoring AI means missing the biggest leverage new engineers have.


📦 4. The project behind it

To make my roadmap real, I started building a backend application — my sandbox for architecture and automation experiments.

It begins as a clean ♨️Java + Spring Boot🍃 monolith, with REST API and PostgreSQL.

Over time, it will evolve with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and ☁️ AWS deployment.


🔗 Links

🗺️Roadmap repo

🧱Coworkly API


🙌 I’m still early in this journey — if you have any tips, suggestions, or lessons from your own experience, I’d love to hear them.

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